Frank Edward Wade

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Frank Edward Wade (October 6, 1873 – March 3, 1930) was an American football player and coach, lawyer, and piano manufacturer. He served as the head football coach at DePauw University in 1895 and at Syracuse University from 1897 to 1899, compiling a career college football record of 20–12–3. Wade was born in Malta Bend, Missouri on October 6, 1873. He attended Washington University in St. Louis before graduating from Yale University in 1896 and Syracuse University College of Law in 1898. He practiced law in Syracuse, New York, and was president of the Amphion Piano Company, which he sold a few years before his death in 1930.[1]

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Frank E. Wade

Of the law firm of Mackenzie & Wade, 541 Onondaga Co. Savings Bank Building, Syracuse, N. Y. Residence, 512 James Street.

Frank Edward Wade was born Oct. 6th, 1873, at Malta Bend, Mo. He is a son of William Henry Wade and Mary Knott, who were married Jan. 15th, 1867, at Clifton, O., and had altogether six children, three boys and three girls, four of whom lived to maturity.

William Henry Wade (b. Nov. 3d, 1835, at Cedarville, O.). a farmer, enlisted in the Civil War as Lieutenant on call for three months' service, and served throughout the War. He was mustered out Lieutenant Colonel. He was for many years a member of the Missouri Assembly, and from 1884-90 was a member of Congress. His father was Isaac Smith Wade, who was born at Wadesville, Va., and who lived in Ohio and Missouri, and his mother was Eleanor Lamb of Chillicothe, O.

Mary (Knott) Wade (b. Nov. 2d. 1840, at Clifton. O; d. in Aug., 1890) was the daughter of William E. Knott, a paper manufacturer of Clifton (previously of New Jersey), and Lydia Price of Clifton and Springfield, Mo.

Wade prepared for College at the Drury College Preparatory School and entered our Class in September, 1893. He was a member of the Track Team for two years, a member of the Football Squad, and served in Senior year as Treasurer of the Yale Gymnastic Association. He belonged to the Yale Union and to A. D. Phi.

He was married June 4th, 1904, at Chicago, 111., to Miss Margaret Burnet Silsbee, daughter of Joseph Lyman Silsbee of Chicago.

Wade attended the St. Louis Law School 1896-7, and the Syracuse University Law School (where he received his LL.B.) 1897-8. In the fall of each of these years he coached football teams—in '96 at De Pauw and in '97 and '98 at Syracuse. The summer of '98 he spent "on Long Island as Sergeant Major, Co. A., 203d New York Volunteers, considering my folly." Of a regiment of 1100 men, 755 had typhoid. "I am henceforth indifferent to the Declaration of Independence," he wrote George Nettleton, "and shall free no more peoples."

In 1899 Wade gave up his alleged hope of living in Missouri and became a resident of Syracuse, N. Y. He was admitted to the Bar in February; the following May he formed his present law-partnership with William A. Mackenzie, Jr., Princeton, '92. In reply to the usual questions as to his activities since 1902 he says, "All this time has been employed in the earnest pursuit of those on whom the honest vocation of the law might be profitably practised. Our travels have been incident thereto, and, alas! it takes much wayfaring as well as waylaying, for those we seek are indeed hard to overtake."

The tale of Wade's cement mine, or well, or whatever it is, has been circulating about the Class with details of various nature for some years. The facts can be ascertained from him only in a briefly modest way—but it appears that a casual visit to an old quarry, joined to his usual keenness of mind and promptness of action, resulted in his getting possession of some deposits of underground stuff considered desirable by cement people, and that their opinion as to its desirability made the outcome of prolonged and nerve-racking negotiation a matter of profit to Felix. The size of the profit has been the subject of rumor for a long time. The "Sun" said $75,000, but Wade is indefinite on that point, and we have all grown into a settled belief that it was millions.

To some of his classmates who have noted on his flitting but frequent visits to the Yale Club the significant development of that well-stroked iron jaw, the stories of his pertinacity, of his vanquishing all conceivable obstacles by sheer determination, by attrition of hostile forces, come without surprise.

Bibliographic information:

• Title Decennial Record of the Class of 1896, Yale College
• Author Yale University. Class of 1896
• Compiled by Clarence Day
• Publisher Class at the De Vinne Press, 1907
• Original from the University of Michigan
• Digitized Jun 21, 2007
• Length 922 pages
• Page: 628
• https://books.google.com/books?id=Pi04AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA628&lpg=PA628&d...

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WADE, Frank Edward, B. A., Attorney, Bank Director.

Frank Edward Wade, B. A. (Yale, 1896); LL. B. (Syracuse, 1898); attorney, in the active practice of law for ten years, 1899-1909; and subsequently president of the Amphion Company of Syracuse, was born at Malto Bend, Missouri, October 6, 1873, son of the Hon. William H. and Mary (Knott) Wade, both of Clark county, Ohio. Hon. William H. Wade enlisted in the Civil War for three months service, answering the first call for troops; was major of the Thirty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and later was appointed colonel, commanding the Fortieth Regiment of the United States Colored Troops. Subsequently, for three terms, Colonel Wade was a member of Congress from the Thirteenth District of the State of Missouri.

Early in the life of Frank Edward Wade his parents removed to Springfield, Missouri, and in the Drury Preparatory School of that city he was fitted for entrance to Yale, to which university he proceeded, graduating there with the degree of A. B. in 1896. Immediately there after he took up the study of law at Syracuse University, and in 1898 received the degree of LL. B.

He was admitted a member of the bar of Onondaga county, New York, in 1899 and he practiced his profession for a decade as a member of the law firm of Mackenzie & Wade, of Syracuse, New York. He is a director of the National Bank of Syracuse; takes no part in politics; and is a Spanish-American War veteran, having served in 1898 as sergeant of Company A, Two Hundred and Third Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry.

At Chicago, Illinois, June 4, 1904, Attorney Wade married Margaret Burnet, daughter of Joseph Lyman and Anna (Sedgwick) Silsbee. They have three children:

1. Anna Sedgwick, born October 2, 1907.

2. William, born October 13, 1908.

3. Margaret, born February 21, 1913

Bibliographic information

• Title Encyclopedia of Biography of New York: A Life Record of Men and Women Whose Sterling Character and Energy and Industry Have Made Them Preëminent in Their Own and Many Other States, Volume 5
• Encyclopedia of Biography of New York: A Life Record of Men and Women Whose Sterling Character and Energy and Industry Have Made Them Preëminent in Their Own and Many Other States, Charles Elliott Fitch
• Author Charles Elliott Fitch
• Publisher American historical society, Incorporated, 1916
• Original from the New York Public Library
• Digitized Jun 29, 2007
• Page: 69
• https://books.google.com/books?id=8CoEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=...